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Letter #2759

Sigmund von HERBERSTEIN to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Vienna, 1544-10-01
            received Wormditt (Orneta), 1544-10-21

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, UUB, H. 155, f. 80
2excerpt in Latin, 16th-century, GStA PK, XX. HA Hist. StA Königsberg, HBA, C 1, No. 987 (enclosure No. 2.2)

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8250 (TK 12), f. 155
2register in English, 20th-century, CBKUL, R.III, 30, No. 147

Prints:
1HARTMANN 1525-1550 No. 987, p. 510 (German register)
2CEID 2/1 No. 40, p. 198-200 (in extenso; English register)

 

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UUB, H. 154, f. 80v

Reverendissimo domino, domino Ioanni Dantisco episcopo Varmiensi etc., domino suo observandissimo

UUB, H. 154, f. 80r

Reverendissime Praesul, Domine observandissime et colendissime. Servitiorum meorum perpetuam commendationem.

Non potui me continere, quin ad Vestram Reverendissimam Dominationem de his, quae apud nos feruntur, paucis perscriberem. {Caesaream maiestatem} scribit serenissima regina Maria gubernatrix Inferiorum Partium suam caesaream maiestatem circa Scholon civitatem ad Matronam flumen suas copias tali modo direxisse, ut omnibus videbatur eandem obsidere velle, sed noctu superato fluvio Galli territi suas instruunt acies ad confligendum, sed non expectato congressu retrahunt se. At non tantum, quin caesareus exercitus postremos sit assecutus multis caesis atque captis ex potioribus et nominatis. Ita disiunctus est exercitus, pars in Scholonam, pars vero versus Parisium se recepit. Caesar occupatis omnibus intermediis fortaliciis iam versus Parisium tendebat et haec sunt usque in septimam Septembris. Quae postea subsecuta, expectamus in horas. Gallus sollicitus de pace tractat instantissime. Obtulit condiciones, quas caesarea maiestas illico per episcopum Atrebatensem regi Anglo misit per postas. Sunt, qui multum sperant de pace ratione nuntii, cum sit filius Granvellae.

Serenissimus rex meus hodie abhinc Pragam profectus, speramus reditum post viginti dies[8]. Vestrae Reverendissimae Dominationi me et servitia mea commendo.

Ex Vienna, raptim prima Octobris anno Domini 1544.

Vestrae Reverendissimae Dominationis obsequentissimus Sigismundus liber baro in Herberstain etc., manu propria.

[8 ] Most probably a reference to Ferdinand I’s consultations with the Bohemian estates in connection with clearing up domestic matters of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the planned campaign against Turkey in Hungary (see Eberhard, p. 391; Hoensch, p. 193; Voigt, p. 288-289; Elementa, XXXVII, No. 870, p. 110-112, No. 871, p. 113, No. 882, p. 120-121; CDCV, II, No. 307, p. 337).